He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIntend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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